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'reveal' a long-hidden secret about Jesus. The book is linked to the Holy Blood, Holy Grail, which I also read at the time, which made Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code somewhat more predictable than it was meant to be when I came to read it. While I didn't take the thesis of these books seriously, I was impressed at how formalised art was through geometric design while remaining 'art'.
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letslearntogether
4 years ago
Art can be quite "geometric" sometimes. The unity that these sorts of mathematical methods show throughout all of it can be beautiful in and of itself. Thanks again for reading!
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The Sacred Geometry Series - The examples are amazing. I've never been much into maths, but the examples you use are fascinating for the patterns they reveal, as well as how to achieve them. But I was also thinking of a book I read long ago, The Tomb of God by Richard Andrews and Paul Schellenberger (mostly discredited but that's not my point) where they apply geometrical principles to painting and documents to
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letslearntogether
4 years ago
Thanks! I hadn't heard of "The Tomb of God" before. The mention of Templars syncs up with some research that I've been doing lately, particularly a documentary by a man named of Rory Duff called "Holy Grail Found" (free on YouTube). But anyway, you are quite right!
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One half of my family I hardly know anything about, while the other half I only have a vauge understanding of. Despite this lack of awareness of my familial history, I can still sense the effects of other's choices, as if they are some type of distant influence impinging upon the periphery of my present existence.
One particular story that sticks in my mind is that of my great-grandmother. From what I understand, she was of mixed race and experienced a lot of prejudice. This may have lead to her death. My grandfather blamed his father for the situation and left the country all together. I feel some kind of deep affinity towards my great-grandmother, but cannot explain why.
The book sounds as if it captures this kind of feeling well.
Yeah, it's a great book. Impossible to boil down to any one thing, but there is a sense throughout the story that we are products of our world and past which is not always apparent to us.